A Survey of Staffordshire; Containing the Antiquities of That County

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...to the town of Mavesine-Ridware; and yet, in Henry the Third's time, John, the son of Thomas Bocland, passed one tenement there, cum homag. reddit: Warrenis, serviciis, sutis curia?, releviis, wardis, et esceatis, to Roger, the son of Raufe Aston, of Heywood. But, 6 Edw. III. sir Robert Maveson and dame Margaret, sa feme, sir Henry Freford's daughter, granted three places of land, lying environed in Kilby Hall, in Blythbury, cum Sewall Hall, and all meadows and pastures which lately were Nicholas Hill's, to William, the son of Robert Hull9; so that, it should seem, Mavesine was still lord of it, notwithstanding the former deed made by Bocland. Blyth taketh its beginning at Wetley Moor, betwixt Dulverne and 'Weston subtus Caversmounte: which 1 At Blythbury was a priory founded by Hugh Mavesine, about the close of Hen. I. or the beginning of king Stephen, for monks and nuns of the Benedictine order, afterwards for nuns only. Roger Clinton, bishop; Odo, priest; and William, chaplain; Hugh and William, with many others, were witnesses to the charter of foundation. It was afterwards united with the priory of Black-ladies, at Brewood, and was suppressed by cardinal Wolsey, towards the endowment of his colleges at Oxford and Ipswich. Since the dissolution, it has passed through the hands of Watson, Leicester, and Warners, to John Chadwick, by purchase, in 1789, father of the owner, 1819, Charles Chadwick, esq. a descendant from the founder, Hugh Mavesine. Scarcely a vestige of the ancient edifice remains. 8 Hence, perhaps, the origin of the name, Hill Ridware. 3 In Weston is Park Hall, which was bought by George Parker, second son of William Parker, of Parwich, co. Derby, who laid the foundation of a stately house; being clerk of the assizes for...